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National Whirligig WASHINGTON By RAY TUCKER IMPERFECT Hem- Wallace's energetic young men have run into acres of troubles in setting up the new AAA program, although they won't admit it publicly. The major difficulty lies in the fact that payments for soil conservation afford no control over production. Preliminary reports of acreage to be sown in basic crops foreshadow the sort of surpluses that sent prices down to starvation levels in 1932. Farmers have been quick to sense that the new system will furnish Federal handouts but not permanent high prices for their crops. They see no long-time future for agriculture in the new set up.

Moreover, it penalizes the thrifly. soil-saving grower and bwicfits the wastrel of land. Redistribution of benefits has also caused complaints. New England, Which hatched the law suit that upset the original AAA, will get three times what it did under the old program. The West, which stood loyally by the first AAA, will suffer.

But the Wallacers are the most philosophic, far-seeing group at the Capital and they expect to straighten out these problems some day. Meanwhile, the new system will serve until after the November election. 0 0 WAITING Tnir partyites have definitely deferred their "big push" until 1940. Although they might muster a formidable group in 1936, recent conferences here and elsewhere have resulted in the decisio.i that leftists of all shades cannot combine forces until either Republican capitalism or Roosevelt Nod Dealism have been given a further trial. Few people realize the extent of the demand and desire for a party- of-the-left which will oulradicalizc F.

D. R. It comprises such influential figures as the La Follettes of Wisconsin, Shipstcad and Olson of Minnesota. Mayor I.aGuardia ot New York. Gerald Nye and half a dozen other Allied or- are Professor John Dcwey of Columbia.

ex-Senator Bingham's young son and numerous intellectuals in the colleges. They have both money and brains and they are bent on a complete rebuilding of our political and economic structure. Although not optimistic, they have agreed to give D. R. another chance provided he is elected.

But what they really expect is a collapse of the going system before 1940 and a popular demand for a new party. Then they expect to step in as saviors of the nation. 000 STRIKES Although many industrialists blame the administration for promoting class consciousness among their workers, confidential reports assembled by Secretary Perkins indicate that factory disturbances hit a new ebb in the years of "Roosevelt recovery." Normally, when the United States drags itself out of a depression, the workers demand a greater share of increasing profits. An epidemic of strikes sets in. To a certain extent thi.s has happened within Ihe last 18 months.

Hut Miss Perkins' reports show that in 1935 there were only half as many strikes as there were when the country began to recover from the 11)19-1921 depression. More important still, they involved fewer people and they didn't la.st so long. Enlightened employers attribute this improvement to better relations between management and labor. They maintain that both sides have become more "reasonable" as the result of closer study of the relationship between profits and wages. 000 BUILDUPS WO Republican Presidential candidates are striving for that high prize simply to regain prestige which may insure their re-election to their present Senate seats.

The two are Senators Borah and Dickinson. Neither expects to be nominated at Cleveland. Bui both have got in bad in their agricultural bailiwicks by their attacks on the administration's farm program. Borah ivill face a popular vote- getter in Governor Ben Ross, and the latter has been given every reinforcement the Democrats could think up, including a CCC force of more than flOOO who ought to show their gratitude to the White House by voting against the senator. At least half a dozen Republicans may oppose Dickinson for the senatorial nomination and he will need extra help to stave them off.

But if they can remain in the Presidential balloting for a few rounds, it may enhance their standing at home. Even if they don't return to the Senate, a few votes at Cleveland may build them up enough for a cabinet say, for Secretary of State and Dickinson for the agricultural post now held by a fellow lowan. 000 DOUBLING An unknown casually of Senator Black's lobby investigation was George Brobeck, who used to be legislative representative for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Brobeck was given signal credit for passage of the bonus over President Roosevelt's veto. When Black's sleuths began to pore over seized Western Union telegrams, they came upon one from Brobeck to Legionnaires in Alabama.

It si id that Black's af'itude on overriding the veto was doubtful and urged the Vets back home to "turn on the heat." The senator from Alabama subsequently cast his ballot for the bonus and against the President. Then Brobeck was lugged before the committee and it was disclosed that he received $100 a week from certain public utilities while working for the Veterans. He lost his job with the soldiers' outfit as soon as he stepped off the stand. (Copyright. 1934.

for Tribuct) Vtttt (BKbunp VOL. OAKLAND, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936 21 NO. 84 BAY BRIDGE RAIL GRANTS ISSUED THE Kjiave Week-Day Column 'Hands Across Bay' Becomes Reality 5. P. AND KEY SYSTEM Here the first comiccling link in the 1400-foot cantilever span for the Easlbay portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is being swung into place.

Tribune pliolo Flic connecting link is now in place and workmen swarm over it, ready to drive connecting pins before placing upper 7 rlbunc photo. Flic work progresses and presently the two ends of the cantilever span arc joined on the lower level by two "eye bars," as A. P. photo. The links now being in position, we have "hands across the bay," with (left to right), Thomas Field, Carroll Smith and Robert foremen, exchanging mutual A.

P. photo TRAFFIC RIGHTS Commission Directs End Of All Trjuiebay Forries; Ahunctla Protests Ruling New Mastodon Finds Show Pre-Historic Life of Eastbay Within a few hours after Oakland and San Francisco were linked in steel yesterday, the State Railroad Commission granted to the Southern Pacific and Key System companies permission to operate rail traffic over the San Francisco- Oakland bay bridge. The decision provides that all transbay ferry service must cease upon the completion of the bridge, meaning that the present ferries, for generations a colorful part ot bay life, will become a thing of the past. The decision, reached unanimously, ends a scries of hearings which began in November, PROTEST ANSWERED Commenting on the protest of the City of Alameda to the abandoning of ferry service to that city, the commission said: "The vast majority of the traveling public that will be affected will be benefited. In consideration of these benefits all commuters must of necessity bear their share in amortizing this investment." Only 13 per cent ot the Easlbay's intcrurban passengers arc from the Alamcda area, the commission estimated.

These commuters are protesting tho routing of trains which will link their city to the bay bridge itself. Objections of San Malco County to the proposed bridge rail service were dismissed by tile commission i as without grounds. The Southern Pacific's operating company over (he bridge will be known as the Interurban Electric Railway Company. Copies of the decision were forwarded by air mail to C. Purccll.

chief engineer of the bridge, and Florence McAuliffc, attorney for the California Toll Brielge Authority, now in Washington seeking an art ditional $10,000,000 for terminal and rail facilities. Heartened by the fact that the cantilever portion of the bridge was successfully "closed" yesterday, crews of workmen pressed forward in their history-making project. Showing little more effort than a child playing with a toy engineering set, a crew of 50 workmen yesterday linked the Eastbay, Yerba Buena Island, and San Francisco with steel. Thu job was declared "perfect" as the 40-foot connecting eye-beam slipped easily into place. And a dream became a reality.

DESPITE HIGH WINDS The job was performed in the face of high winds which first caused officials of the company to order postponement of the procedure until today. Workmen, however, were confident and the work went forward. The first, eye-beam was lifted from a barge monrcd feet below the lower level of Ihe bridge by derricks Maneuvered into place, it was anchored and San Francisco and Oakland were steel a connecting pin, 14 inches in diameter and three and one half feet long. Hardly was the first eye beam safely in place on the south side of the lower deck of the span, when a second was raised and installed on the north side. This, also, fitted perfectly, according to engineers who witnessed the process.

A change of shifts on the Yerba Bdena Island portion of the $73,000,000 project brought workmen streaming from the island to the Eastbay mainland. Longitudinal jacks and other heavy mechanical equipment will be brought into play for the installation of heavier steel. Most of the truss work has already been completed. Petition forTSth Street Line Refused The Stale Railroad Commission today denied application by the City ot Oakland for restoration of service on the Southern Pacific Iflth Street electric linn. The decision, held in abeyance until the operation of rail transportation over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was decided, came after a series of hearing conducted before Wallace Ware, a member of the commission.

At the same time, the State body granted permission to the Key System to inaugurate a motor coach service for the benefit of residents on the west side of Lake Merritt in Oakland. This service will begin at 12th and Jackson Streets and will proceed along 12th Street to Webster. The line will then be routed on Webster Street to 19th Street, to Lakeside Drive, to Madison Street, to 12th Street and thence back to Jackson Street. Whisky Fed to Cat; Pair Get 10 Months SAN FRANCISCO, March Accused of cruelty to a dumb animal and disturbing the peace, AI- phonse Jones, 37, and Jack Bernard, 27, 440 Page Street, were sentenced to 10 months in prison today by Municipal Judge Twain Mich- aolson. Mrs.

N. Mona, manager of the Page Street authorities the apartment, two men told fed whisky to a pet cat for days, threw the cat at her when she objected, and then threw it out of a third window, killing it K. A. Ritchie, University of California paleontologist, examines lower jaw of prehistoric maslodon, dug out of rock formations two miles back of St. Mary's College.

Scientists estimate mastodon lived and died five million years ago. Mount Diablo Section Producing Valuable Contributions to Students Physical remains of two treated with materials to prevent its disintegration. So important have discoveries in the Diablo region been that Professor Bruce L. Clark, curator of the invertebrate col led ions of the University of California, declared a movement is afoot in geological and paleontologic fields to establish a museum at the mountain peak. The only marine deposits comparable to those found on Diablo are from 12.000 to 24,000 feet in the separated clashes of prehistoric life today have seen the light of day in the Easlbay after spending literally millions of years in rock formations of the Mount Diablo region.

A huge mastodon, possibly the one whose tracks were seen when excavations were being made lor St. Mary's College, was dug up two miles from the college and two large deposits of radiolara. skeletons of a marine microscopic organism, were uncovered in strata north of Mount Diablo. The mastodon jawbone was found by K. A.

Ililchie, recent graduate of Ihe University of California, and carefully dug up by Ritchie and S. B. WeUes, 2022 Dana Street, Berkeley. It was taken to the University department of paleontology and today was being SACRAMENTO, March (IP) Mrs. Alex J.

Grant returned tonight to her position as night supervisor in the San Francisco Hospital as the sheriff searched for her husband against whom she had a complaint charging assault and battery. sea, Clark said. The deposits on the i mountain are several hundred feet Thc compla.nl was signed and a 1 lss Icd and are separated from each lss Ic 3 rr 9 -mnn flur Mrs Grant had told District other by 2000 feot of sand One other locality, the Barbados Islands in the West Indies, is believed lo be the only other Western Hemisphere location where deposits similar to those on Diablo have been reported. Daughter Wins Estate of Napan by 30-Year-Old Letter NAPA, March letter Friend as "Dear Father" and signed in a childish hand 30 years ago gave up family secrets and identification withheld by a deceased Napa man for over 40 years and today resulted in a daughter's claiming a share of her father's estate. For nearly half a century Frank D.

Friend lived in Napa. He married the Intc Elizabeth Wickharn, member of pioneer family. He died here on February 16, taking his secret to his grave. Letters of administration in his estate, valued at several thousand dollars, were filed here by his wife's surviving sister, Ellen Wickham, claiming the estate for herself and her sisters. Last week a child's letter was found in the man's effects, place-marked "York County, Maine," and addressed to Frank by Ida M.

Drown. Traced to Maine, the letter was discovered to have been written by the daughter of Frank B. Drown, who as a child had been told to address her letters to her father as "Frank D. Friend." Frank B. Drown, York County records show, left his home there in 1093 after divorcing his wife, F.lnora Drown, and left behind his baby daughter, now a woman of 44 years.

The wife elicd on March 24, U)10, records show. Sworn statements and depositions from Maine claim to definitely identify Frank Friend as Frank B. Drown. The Enoch Ardcn story was revealerl in Superior Court here by Henry C. Gcsford, veteran Napa attorney representing the woman who claims to be Friend's daughter.

Hayward Man Dies Of Injuries by Fall HAYWARD, Marc 24. Daniel Walde, 50, of 21437 East 14th Street, who died in an Oakland hospital Sunday as the result of injuries received in a fall in that city Friday n'ght, was to receive last rites this afternoon at the Sorenscn Chapel. Interment was to follow in Mountain View Cemetery. The accident occurred as Walde wns leaving a meeting at tho headquarters of the Oakland local of the Milk Drivers' Union, of which he was an active member, and he suffered a skull fracture. In addition lo the union, Walde was active in the Serjuoia Lodge of Masons-, of Oakland, and the Piedmont Parlor of Native Sons.

A native of Santa Clara, he had resided here for about 10 years. Widow Given Bank Account by Court SAN FRANCISCO, March 24. Thc District Court of Appeals ruled here today that Mrs. Marie Wilson, young widow of Albert Wilson, who died here in 1934 at the age of 84, was rightfully entitiea lo bank account of more than which her aged husband gave her during the last days of his life. Thc ruling, which reversed a decision made by Superior Judge Michael J.

Roche, held that "Mrs. Wilson is entitled to the checking account and should not be put to the expense of ariother trial." II was revealed al tho trial that a witness was present when the aged Wilson gave the bank account lo his young wife with the words, "This is for you, Marie, and I want you to have Surviving are his widow, Mrs. The Crocker First National Bank Kathcrinc vValde; a daughter, Virginia, and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Annie Seydnx, Mrs. William Kartell, Mrs.

Joseph Buhler, Mrs. Frank Schirmcr, Mrs. Leon Kisstler and John and Oscar Walde. of San Francisco, executors for the Wilson eslalc, valued at $05,000, had previously refused to give the account to Mrs. Wilson.

She married Wilson in Massachusetts In 1020 and nursed him until his death. CANARD Californians have always been proud of the climate and the living advantages of this glorious State and have, perhaps, bragged about these matters frequently. It is admitted to be possible, however, that these enthusiastic boostings may have aroused a modicum of; envy in other places not so fortunate, for there have been evidences of this spirit now and then in localities frozen with cold, parched with drought, or submerged by floods. For instance, there is New England, which is very cold just now. where remarks about Sunny California may I have trickled in, and where it is possible that they might welcome some disaster news about California to make them feel better.

Anyhow, they pounced upon the story of the house on McKillup Avenue which slid down toward a creek and was practically destroyed by the movement of earth. A Boston newspaper printed the picture with great glee and a copy of the a per arrived at the Oakland City lall. Over the picture was a big cap- ion containing; the following jeer: Just an act of God in God's coun- ry." HEADING I1C book a week, per man, per year. That's San Quentin's book con- utnption. For prisoners, separated rom the outside world, find escape reading.

Gray-clad convicts line up twice laily to select this reading matter. And if they fail to find what they seek among the prison library's 5,000 volumes, they apply to the State library. Some 1GO.OOO volumes passed over counter in San Quentin last year. Several thousand more found heir way to prison cells from the State department. And inmates, always interested in figuring time or quantity, have arrived at the conclusion that each of the institution's 5000-odd men read on an average of a book a week throughout a year.

Seventy-five per cent of the books called for in prison are works of fiction. Western and mystery novels are the greatest in demand. Books on fine nrts make up 50 per cent of Ihe withdrawals from the State library, with useful arts ranking second. Next come volumes on philosophy, natural science, literature, history, and travel. Prison offers still one more field for reading.

The institution boasts a Catholic library of TOO volumes, which shows its favor in the fact that it issues volumes at the rate of 500 a month. Not all prison reading Is done in English. The library contains volumes in Spanish, French, German, Italian. Scandinavian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Chinese and Japanese. tf tt REFORM Either the last shipment condemned liquor aboard the Oakland garbage boat was so bad that no seagull would touch it, or else the seagulls have taken their previous experiences to heart and have reformed, according to Walter Gibson, superintendent of garbage disposal.

Gibson reports that the seagulls which usually accompany the garbage boat 25 miles to sea were entirely absent when the last shipment finally polluted the Pacific Ocean. It will be remembered that a most deplorable condition existed soon after the first shipment of con- Attorney Otis D. Babcock her husband had kept her tied to a bed for two days to prevent her from returning to her work. Mrs. Grant returned here lo her home last week-end as has been her custom to visit her husband.

She told Babcock her husband bound her to a bed Saturday afternoon, shouting: "I'm not going to let you go back. You'll slay tied here until you agree to give up your job. The district attorney was told by Mrs. Grant she remained roped to the bed through Sunday and until about noon today. After her husband had left tho house with her money and return ticket she freed herself and also removed the heavy blanket that smothered her cries.

"I'm at a loss to explain my husband's actions," said Mrs. Grant. "He had not been drinking and was always even-tempered until lie suddenly flew into this rage." Grant, an insurance salesman, had not been employed regularly and Mrs. Grant said she had been sending him money. Driver Gets Second Tag in 10 Minutes PALO ALTO, March ThoroiiRhfioort of Los Angeles will have until somewhere around April Fool's Day to think up an excuse for getting arrested here twice within 10 minutes.

He will come before Judge E. Springer with a crop of (54 speeders arrested in Palo Alto over the week-end. Thoroughgood was stopped by Officer R. D. Fletcher at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon when be was as- sertedly going 37 miles an hour in a 20-mile zone.

While rushing to get oul of such a lown, he ran pell- mell into the clutches of Officer Ben Hickey, who halted him at 4:10 and wrote 43 miles an hour on his yellow lag. Murder Is Charged In Soldier's Death SAN FRANCISCO, March charge of murder was filed today against Louis J. Hall, 47, of 374 Grove Street, following the death today al Lettcrman Hospital of Clyde K. Badgley, soldier attached to the 30th Infantry at the Presidio. Badgley was shot last week in Hall's apartment after the pair had allegedly quarreled.

He was removed to Central Emergency Hospital and later transferred to LeUerman Hos- dcmncd was some years ago. taken to sea The seagulls swooped down upon it with great enthusiasm and soon developed such symptoms of belligerency that they wobbled through the air to the Pacific battle fleet and challenged the battleships to a they then performed marvelous air evolutions, including a lot of figure 8's nnd some aerial wing-dangs which have never been described, winding up in comatose condition on the beaches. This vulgar sort of antic -was repeated whenever the garbage boat went out with a shipment of but the last load was flatly turned down. It is admitted that this hooch was frightful stuff, not even fit for a seagull, which implies that the seagulls arc gelling refined in Ihcir tastes and are becoming connoisseurs of liquor. Yet there Js another implication which suggests thai seagulls may have more fundamental common-sense than humans, which is a scathing implication.

But can it be possible that tha seagulls have profited by past experience and have learned the lesson that hoooch is not good for them? KNAVE My good friend Jack Oakle, the wise-cracking; screen comedian, and Vcnita Vanlen, formerly of the Follies, set a pace in streamline travel when they were married Sunday during a-stop-over, in Yuma. I can't believe It. Jack Oakie, Ihe fellow who always said, "A bachelor is a guy who never makes the same mistake once." Imagine, after all these years, onj of Hollywood's most famous nuptial dodgers has succumbed to matrimony. Who'd a thought a little thing like Cupid's arrow could fell a staunch Oakie. It's understood that the couple Is coming to New York, then expects to fly to Florida What would you call that, a honeymoon over Miami? Doesn't it seem strange, though A movie wedding with nobody's former husband marrying no former wife? (Copyrlcht, int.

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